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Originally Posted by irish1958
I still feel that the person scouting the horizon would know within a degree or two where he was looking.
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I think it's the old practice makes perfect thing. I've now quite got the hang of looking in the approximate right direction but even before learning most of the main bearings off by heart I remember I often used the inner dial on the compass (I forget which mod I was using then) as this always maintained the boats heading at 0, and the general direction the lookout was shouting about could be read off from that inner dial.
(From being a landlubber who seems to have taught himself quite a bit about the sea using SH3, I reckon I could have been an Admiral if I'd joined the navy when I left school and got taught proper!):rotfl: